The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-14

COMMENT AND OPINION,

The "long -hauF clause in railroad law has
been most emphatically observed by the Pan
handle officials. -Philadelphia North American
THE government at Washington still lives
but it is hard to get drink of whisky there on
Sunday. Every great capital seems TO have
some drawback Louisville Courer-Journal
THE wedge which is going to sunder the solid
Democratic South and make it largely Repub-
lican is the wholesome policy of industrial pro-
lection as embodied in the tariff.-Philadelphia
Inquirer.
Mr.. CURTIS has faded out as political infiu.
ence. There will be no use for MIN any one
like him in the next national Republican con-
vention, and it will be the stronger and the
purer for their Observation-Disclosures Commercial
Gazette.
be an extra session in order that necessary bust
ness, neglected by the last Congress, should be
attended to. Still. the House of Representa-
lives of the Fif.ieth Congress is Democratic,
press.
THE Panhandle mana cement will lose all faith
in human nature if it is found necessary to ar
rest the remaining 20 per cent of its train
hands. Four ffths of the working force of 1,
big railroad in Jail is a sad commentary on the
honesty of the present generation of Americans.
Minneapolis Tribune.
ANARCHIST MoST asserts that European pris-
ons are superior to the Blackwels island inst;-
tuition No decent man will prevent Most from
atlantic dungeon if he SO desires. The Amer-
can government is too poor to furnish wide
mouthed law breakers with palaces.
Citizen.
LOCAL option is prohibition broken into frae-
ments. It is better than State prohibition. oe-
cause it is nearer approach to individual liber-
ty of action Every man should be mis- own
Prohibitionst; every liquor seller should be ade-
quately taxed; every drunkard whose vice is
public ofense should be promptly punished.
philadelphia Record
BUSINESS is not going to be ruined by the long.
andshort-haul clause of the interstate-commerce
act Notwithstanding some dismal prophecies to
that effect The clause is very elastic one in
deed, and the commissioners are empowered to
| interpret and apply it with the utmost latitude
Business is all right. and the railroads will con-
/ tinue running until further notice.-Boston
| Globe.
MEN are constantly paying more money for
| legislative seats than their salaries amount to-
| Campaigns are becoming more and more pecu1i-
ary contests and less and less argumentative
| Men who have little old-fashioned honesty
about them and do not fall in with the corrupt
current are ''green"-milk-s ops who are not sup
to snuff and objects of ridicule to practical"
| men.-New York World
THE great thing observable about these prohi-
bitIon waves in the South is that they follow
along with the prospects of better times in q
business way. They amount to kind Of moral
revival. Whisky. shiftlessness and poverty have
/
the South With the chance TO make money
comes ambition. and with ambition, temperance.
Springfield Republican.
! SENATOR VEST says that with no financial
hurricanes sweeping the country Cleveland will
be the next President If he continues in his pres
enr course. He is honest, and gets down to work
mornings before the other hands are Done aat,nc.
their breakfasts 1t is by such little ohsergetluns
as these that the Missouri Senator S sDis -
carry around in his vest pocket the I'll deeds 20
so large a number Of nice, fat federal onees s.
| Louis Chronicle.
IT NAV be that the railroad companes them
| selves in their cautious efforts to be tbs sal
| side and keep clear of possible penalties, have
failed TO recognize the elasticity of the sbetaeu
| and to give proper consideration to dir aFsnces
| of circumstances and conditions. But tie cor
| striet:on and straipipg produced by toe rfgiI q
construction of the law will have to give way 81
a more liberal construction before long, though
| any adjustment of business however saiutAEy
In its ultimate effects, will not be accom- ed
without some friction.-New York Times